ietf-nntp Message IDs

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> 7. Article posting and retrieval

>>  I don't think we should refer to RFC 2822 here, or in fact require a
>>  particular message ID syntax.  NNTP can at least theoretically be used
>>  for storing any messages with a vaguely mail-like syntax.  I would
>>  therefore replace the end of this section with:

>>    Message-ids are, in this specification, opaque identifiers inside
>>    angle brackets that uniquely identify messages.  They must satisfy the
>>    following restrictions:

> Yes, this approach is fine. Essentially, you either define message-ids
> very broadly, and say "octets much match" and "other standards may provide
> more restrictions/conventions", or else you describe their syntax in
> excruciating detail. Problem was the present draft was somewhere in the
> middle.

Excellent.  Let's see if we can get consensus on this approach, then,
which will get us out of the way of the ongoing discussion over what
Message IDs should look like.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>